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FAST PHONES Last week Verizon became the first U.S. company to deploy the fancy, fast new form of wireless Internet access known to techies as "3G," for "third generation." The $30-a-month service (Verizon calls it the Express Network) will send data to PCs with special wireless cards, and even to some cell phones, more than twice as fast as an ordinary 56K modem...
PALM TREAT The new Palm i705 ($450) is a step closer to the easy, flexible wireless e-mail access all handheld users crave. Unlike the Palm VII, the i705 checks your e-mail constantly instead of just when you ask, and it alerts you when it arrives. If the i705 had a mini-keyboard like its rival, the RIM BlackBerry, we'd give it a high five...
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Telecommunications companies such as Motorola, which is China's largest foreign investor, are wiring the nation--rather, making it wireless. Last July, the number of Chinese mobile subscribers surpassed the U.S.'s lead, and construction continues on state-of-the-art digital wireless networks. According to the WTO terms, foreign companies will be able to control 49% of communications networks within three years in certain regions...
...Vegas last week surrounded the new venture from WebTV founder Steve Perlman. Moxi is a set-top box that's got it all: digital video recording (like TiVo, but even easier), a DVD player, 80 GB worth of storage for your music CDs, Internet access and, most important, wireless home networking (so you can access its features from any TV or PC in the home). Moxi will launch at the end of 2002 as part of the Echostar satellite system, which is itself likely to merge with DirecTV. Can world domination be far behind...